First companion to the late very spaced-out syncopation exercise— playing the written part as accents on a cymbal, with bass drum in unison, and filling the space in between with continuous 8th notes, triplets (swinging the 8ths of the page rhythm), 16ths, or sixtuplets. Obviously you can do it with simple alternating singles, but there are some other possibilities worth developing.
Like, I want to be able to catch all the cymbal hits with the right hand. Sometimes that will require playing a diddle on the filler, right before a cymbal hit, as follows:
It requires a small amount of attention to the context— the timing of the current accent, and the next one:
8th notes: Just make it.
Triplets: Add a diddle when hits are on 1/3 vs. 2/4— any combination, on the beat or the last partial.
16th notes: RLRL all the way
Sixtuplets: Add a diddle when hits are on the beat and on the &— any beat, any order.
Put the double at the end, I think we’ll off be in the middle of the fill before realizing we need the double. You could try putting the double at the beginning of the fill, too, it just takes a little more forethought.
We saw some similar negotiations on my page combining similar Reed systems. It’s the same with any area of vocabulary, not only do your hands have to be fluent with the stuff, you also have to have the conceptual part together, whatever (hopefully) small amount of mental attention it requires to do it.
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